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Notman house is awesome, and could really help drive the Montreal entrepreneurial community. For Silicon Valley folks, think of a "plug and play" place, but a completely dilapidated one...
but made them sterile

Monsanto never sold terminator-seeds. They consciously decided to not do that and instead use contracts and patent law to protect their stuff.

9/10 of the comments on this thread are suggesting that Monsanto should have done the terminator tech, though.
Taking your points one at a time:

1) If PNaCl ever happens and is not directly tied to Chrome's internals (which it is at the moment), the discussion can be revisited.

2) Google is opposed to anyone else being more involved in the process. Other people have tried.

3) Mozilla has no particular concerns about "losing face" if a pragmatic decision is needed. We're a lot more worried about consequences for users and the web than we are about our egos or "face".

4) Calling "NaCL" an "open technology" is about on par with calling Silverlight an "open technology", for what it's worth. Granted, the source is open, but again it's tied to various Chrome-specific stuff that is underspecified and would be incredibly difficult to integrate into any other browser.

Basically, as far as I can tell your argument comes down to saying that Mozilla should be open to implement PNaCl (not NaCl), if it were being developed completely differently and had different goals. We might be, if that counterfactual held. But it sure doesn't, and I don't see any hope of it holding. If that ever _does_ happen, we can revisit this discussion, of course.
I live about two blocks from there, just north off St Urbain. I will definitely be helping out with this, it looks completely awesome! Good job everyone.
Yes, this title is misleading. the page is just a sign-up prompt, that says "if you don't have an account, reuqest one"... ?
>Well, if you want to brush everything off like that (including how you make predictive model from daily data when there's so much volatility when you actually want buy/sell) then you're clearly trying to win some type of "argument". Have at it boss.

Trade on opens. Occasionally there are gaps, but they are traditionally due to big news, almost always related to fundamentals. If you're modelling the stock market as a random walk, then you're just as likely to have volatility go for you as against you under normal market conditions.
Isn't this basically what webOS was? Now that it's OSS, why not piggy back off what they've already done?
From a practical standpoint, while it's disappointing, I don't understand why they are so surprised that solutions were posted online.

I mean, if there are 5000 students in the course, for even odds of it happening, 0.5 = (1 - n) ^ 5000 -> n = 0.0139% chance per student, which seems like an awfully saintly ratio to assume.

Won't they be making the problem worse by drawing borderline cheaters' attention to it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect)?
They don't actually know where it is, they're just quoting NASA to jump on the page views.
As someone taking the course - yes, it was pretty obvious. And even if he had said nothing, it's common sense that uploading other's solutions as your own is frowned upon.
I was boggled by reading Bunnie Huang's diagnosis of some counterfeit SD cards. The SD card manufacturers have realized it's cheaper to put an entire ARM processor on each SD card to diagnose and bypass bad blocks of flash instead of using a very expensive machine to do the testing. Think about that for a sec.
To be fair, this case isn't about cross-pollination. This case is about a grain farmer who agreed not to reuse Monsanto's seed, then bought seed from a grain elevator that had accepted harvests from farmers using Monsanto seed. So he reused someone else's Monsanto seed.
Thanks for the tip. Never heard of them. How do you like it? Pros / cons?
Create a checking account just for this purpose. Only use it for holding transfers. It takes about ten minutes to setup a new account at most banks.
Now I've heard of them and would recommend people to not use them because of these tactics.
None in effect, because changes to official legal position are easy to ignore if your group of zealots is large and feared enough to do so.

And anyway those changes are slow in coming as the "moderates" have to be very careful not to push too far too fast and risk having the traditionalists who are often significant in number twanging back and undoing the good work for years to come. So maybe my "but not all" was overly generous to those in power out there who are more progressive than the norm.

But there are places where the law is at least heading in the right direction with women being officially banned from less things, and I wouldn't want to tar them with the same brush as those areas that are definitely backwards in all matters.

Oddly enough Iraq, pre Bush2 and his mate Tony, was one of the freer places in that region for Women, by quite some margin (they could be educated with few threatening to stone them for their efforts). Unfortunately the current unstable state of the region gives the zealots a significant amount of sway so women who want to be more than a trophy/utensil now have more fear in their lives. How easily the instability there enabled that situation to change so markedly shows how fragile such progress can be.
I had the chance to visit this space when I was in Montreal for Confoo last February. It's a pretty nice space and could be awesome with the right work put into it..

I'm in to back you guys. :)
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It's an outdated business model fundamentally designed around publicly traded companies. For them, issuing releases on "the wire" is a requirement as a means of distributing news.

For a startup, I cannot recommend enough against a wire issuance, unless you are specifically in the financial community (or some other specific niche that I'm not thinking of). You can still "issue" a press release simply by putting it on your blog, emailing it to the press, etc. When I was running my marketing firm (www.stagetwo.com), we probably issued 100+ releases, with less than 5 hitting a wire service.
They definitely showed the honor code the first time I went into this class as well as a different class I took on modeling.

I think the expelling is totally fine. Martin and his team put a lot of time into this, developing the course and the tools to automate grading and if someone is going to put this up publicly and not take it down they should just boot them from the course.

I don't understand why anyone would actually turn in the same work, though. It's not like a completion certificate from this class will get you closer to a degree or anything. I'm sure there must be some reason and I hope it's more than just "I wanted a 10/10 for me to see!". I suppose that an employer might tell someone "learn Scala and get that certificate and get a 10/10 on every assignment" but I somehow doubt it.
Doubtful, since the strain that goes to market isn't taken from seed from the external test plots.

I think that if it ever came to that, all one would have to do is demonstrate that the gene is now occurring naturally, and they'd have a bonified defense against Monsanto.

As it stand now, though, most of the farmers who went to court with Monsanto were found to be intentially trying to reproduce the technology.
Any particular reason you don't just tag versions instead of creating new repos?
Completely agree - even when the salesmen behave exactly as you'd want them to, it's still a stressful experience because of the price opacity.

When my wife and I bought our current car, we researched the average price for that year/model and resolved not to pay more than that, even though the price we were quoted was much higher. So we went to the dealer and noticed that the price on the sticker was LOWER than the price we'd planned to demand.

We quickly conferred, "Well, it says that $200 of that price is for the mudflaps, we should at least demand that we not have to pay for those since we don't care about them." So the salesman ends up quoting us a price even LOWER than we'd planned to ask for. We looked at each other, shrugged uncertainly, and said "sure, that's fine."

Objectively we ended up paying less than we'd planned when we walked into the dealership, but we felt significantly less happy about it! Later on we kicked ourselves for being caught too off guard to do any haggling; we probably could have knocked at least a few hundred dollars off, and even if not there would have been no harm in asking. There's something to be said for not having to hassle with haggling if you find it unpleasant (as we do), but it's a perverse system that gives you a better deal than you were expecting and makes you feel worse for it.
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Then they would claim that child owed them money

No, they would not. Children cannot enter into contracts. Even if you think Monsanto is pure evil, they would not try that.

The best a company could do is contract with the parents to indemnify the company against the actions of the putative child. But patents will expire before the child is capable of entering into contracts anyway.

Therefore, they feel fully justified in suing a farmer simply because his neighbor grows his crop from Monsanto seed and bees cross pollinated the crops.

That's not what the linked article is about.
It's usually work laws.

They are not forbidden to sell, but to ask the employees to be there on Sunday. If they wanted to have a Sunday shift they'd have to hire other employees

In Spain iheard it's similar... most huge supermarkets open late Friday and Sunday, because they pay another shift of employees.
Why throw away over a year's worth of work?
Also, BitBucket's free plan allows for unlimited public and private repositories, while GitHub only allows for public repositories on the free version.

I use BitBucket for a number of side-projects mostly as a way to make sure all my code is backed up off-site, for free.
Or, alternately, we'd all be griping about still having to use Python 1.x until people stopped using IE. It's only been the last year or so that you could start thinking about sufficiently large percentages of your users to be running current browsers.
As someone who mostly uses github to browse through source code, the experience in Github is much better. Their source browser is fast and the code is very readable. Now, I'm trying to see if the new bitbucket can compare but there is no Explore option on the homepage so I can't really check their source browser.
Your experience in the world -- and the experience of those around you -- will improve dramatically when you focus more on the meaning and intent of people's words and less on analysis of their grammar.

I agree with other commenters who question whether HN is really the place for this post, but that the regime over there would do this to a 14-year-old girl to enforce their ideology regarding women makes both her age and her gender extremely relevant.
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As much as I try to avoid "x for n genre" sites like this, I have to say that I really enjoy this one. It's really fun to move through the associations they've put together for artists I like already.

(Although their search algorithm could use some help. It can't find "Gilbert & George" when one searches for "Gilbert and George")
I maintained an app using Netscape's LiveWire 12 years ago. Had that project been free (as in beer) I think it could have seen pretty good adoption.
Both are valid models. In my town, there is a free water park with a REALLY expensive hot dog stand right outside.
"proprietary" is a spectrum, not a binary decision.

You can be open-source, documented (though NaCl is not so documented in practice because of the Pepper dependencies), published, and encouraged to adopt, but if your development is controlled completely by a single company and if you depend on other, undocumented, parts of that company's software stack, then you are more proprietary than something with an open (as in, developed in the open, with many participants) standard and no dependencies on a particular implementation.

Obviously you'd be less proprietary than, say, ActiveX, but that's a pretty low bar nowadays. NaCl is not competing against ActiveX; it's competing against the web platform as it exists. And that's definitely much less proprietary than NaCl.
Agreed. I find numerous parallels between that and learning to program.

The new hire who shows up at their desk with "Learn Java in 24 Hours" feels like a "manipulator" and "huckster".

The one who makes a deep study of the Gang of Four book looks like a Carnegie or Clinton from the outside.

The one that grew up around computers looks like a "natural". However, they just went through those previous two stages of learning while nobody was looking.

The "natural" uses the same external behavior as the rest, but at such an unconscious level as to evade easy detection by themselves or others.
You've raised some really great points. And no, this is not raining on my parade, I think this feedback is more like fertilizer :). So, thanks.

I guess since I use it and know the URL quite well, I didn't prioritize creating an account too high, but you're absolutely right.

Thanks so much for your thoughts.

P.S.: Any thoughts on how I can monetize this? Would you pay for a monthly subscription if there was a mobile app and all the convenience factors you've mentioned?
They're almost purely vestigial at this point. They may have some small SEO value, but that's about it.

Press releases are a vanity. Something for PR firms to charge clients for. Totally useless for small companies.
If you add smart phones/tablets as well, which are just computers with a different form factor, then the well of unused cpu power is huge.
It seems you decided to downvote my reply for some reason. That's a disappointment.
I'd actually recommend you give both services a try and see which you actually like before making a recommendation to anyone, one way or the other.
"Best Buy is great for researching your purchases."

It would be, if they had enough of a selection to peruse.
Not to mention the juicy profits they make from their service department.
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I think he means he has a lot of small projects.
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I've thought long about this issue, as I did a paper in marketing class about the threat of Amazon to brick and mortar stores. I don't think an Amazon showroom is really the best answer. Sears tried that (and still has some of these stores). Volume is very low. It works best for catalog items, and catalogs are fairly rare.

The ability to touch and feel is a value-add, but just one of many. The pimply teenagers you mention are something I feel needs to change. The biggest value-add these stores can have is information and strong recommendations. Basically, if someone who knows what they are doing cannot recommend this product over that product, don't stock this product. That way when people walk into the store, the salesman can ask what they are looking for and recommend the best product they can buy for their needs. This keeps cost down and having a knowledgeable sales staff is a huge win for everyone.

Right now in Best Buy, all I can really do is look at what is available and then research it online for more specs and reviews, combining the best of both worlds. This is time consuming and unproductive in the long run. Asking a sales member for advice is worthless currently. This is what needs to change for Best Buy, in my opinion. The best product for my needs, recommended by a salesman who knows what he is doing, available instantly.
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The redesigned commits view is 100 times better than Github's ever was. http://cl.ly/image/300S2R3q2x0N

So much more info, and even a graph like in gitx.
I go to Notman House pretty much every time I'm in Montreal, and I learn something new every time. It is definitely a very cool hacker space, and I highly encourage anyone who wants to see a thriving community outside of Silicon Valley to donate! (I just did)
Cheating without consequences hurts everyone taking the class. I'm disappointed to see so many comments implying it's fine to just let that go.

My thought on this comes from a good chunk of direct experience: I've taught a number of courses to undergrads at NYU, as well as having about 5 summers of teaching experience in programming and cryptography at summer camps including CTY.

Imagine all students are given a button that says "give me an A," and they can press it if they choose, or do all the course work and possibly get a worse grade. Even if you chose to do the work because you were self-motived, you'd still be tempted to press the A button to guarantee a good grade.

That's an exaggeration, but the point is the same. The easier it is to get _any_ kind of validation without real work, the harder it is to learn.

It is harder to stay motivated, and the feedback received becomes less meaningful. It is even disappointing to simply know many of your fellow students probably cheated without consequences.

I do believe in seeing answers after doing the work, but it is just common sense to avoid posting them before things are due, and to support clear communications between the instructors and students about the details of posting answers.
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Notman house is definitely at the epicentre of the currently booming montreal startup scene.

I really hope they manage to get to match their goal and secure the house for the benefit of all the montreal entrepreneurs.
I think he was asking for the source of @wahnfrieden's claim.
I often init new repos even if its a single file script. Github pricing is per private repository, but Bitbucket has free unlimited private repositories so I can just push them all up.
> but I refuse to touch Javascript with a ten-foot pole.

Why? Honest question here: what are the problems that are making you unwilling to even try it? Is performance the main problem?

> just think of it as opening up the "standard native code"

As long as the browser is running on a small set of target hardware architectures. And everyone else gets locked out, right?

If PNaCl ever happens, that might change, but at the moment that's how NaCl works: you tie your "web page" to a particular set of hardware architectures when you use it.
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... which makes Rabi an astoundingly effective supervisor.
Coursera could offer an on site test ($) for the employer.

The perspective employee would login and take a test based on the courses that they have completed. The score would then be sent to employee and employeer and ranked along side others who have completed the course.
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Sounds like they needed a second stage to get the Orbcomm payload to the correct orbit, but they were too close to ISS to detach the first stage rockets. This is because, after compensating for the loss of one of the engines, they didn't have enough fuel to get to the minimum-safe distance to detach the stage 1 boosters.
I run the site by myself, self-taught HTML/CSS with a little bit of jQuery. If you guys have any car buying questions, I'd be glad to answer them.
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I love seeing how people tackle these sorts of problems. Here, the trade-off is duplicate messages reaching a client. I know others have tried a no-"ack" approach. I'm still working in the land of RabbitMQ solving all my business needs and I like it.

I'd love to see some numbers, reasons for decisions made, and suggested best practices for this solution other than "manual de-dupe."
If Monsanto want their patent to cover future generations of seeds derived from a Monsanto seed. Would they also claim liability if one of those generations had a mutation that caused the plant to be toxic and kill people?
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That's predicated on them being able to spare many employees just for drive sourcing, which as a relatively small company they probably couldn't. They went with the lower cost stop gap at first, if the shortage hadn't lasted as long they would have been better off with how they did it.
Well, the idea came up when I was working on a project and we started using emails to manage our tasks. This became tedious and I thought about using Basecamp but was afraid that management would make a big deal out of it and not approve it. So, in a nutshell it's allows you to manage lists ad-hoc and then share them. That's it.

Thanks for the comment, though.
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Interior design are like contractors -- they can make structural changes to physical structures as part of their course. I don't see it as at all ridiculous that they need a license any more than for general contractors. I frankly want to know that they've done some studying before they cut into my walls.

It would be bullshit if you were referring to interior decorators, but I don't think there's any certification or licensing to become an interior decorator unless you join an association or club that requires it.
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Lovely work. From peeping the source, looks like an interesting hybrid use of Backbone.js as well. If you're interested in getting the new Bitbucket listed on the Backbone homepage, just email me a brief paragraph, and I can set it up.
A legal threat written in a cute and witty tone is still a legal threat
I'm seeing the beginnings of a replacement for HTTP based on a distributed hash table.
We have indeed looked into that.

As far as I could distill, the problem is on the worldwide trademark Tetris©®(tm) that some people use to designate the type of game. The word to use is Tetrominos, then the game itself does not need licensing.
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"in the sense that it's against a TOS on a website"

A website that is providing you with completely free content from some of the top universities. I think it's fair for them to dictate the terms.